Kulińska K, Kuliński T, Lyubartsev A, Laaksonen A, Adamiak R W
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań.
Comput Chem. 2000 May;24(3-4):451-7. doi: 10.1016/s0097-8485(99)00085-6.
The spatial distribution functions (SDFs) determined as three-dimensional density distribution of hydrogen and oxygen atoms of water in a local coordinate system linked with RNA molecule are used to study details of the spatial structure of aqueous solution around selected parts of RNA duplexes: r(CGCGCG)2 and 2'-O-Me(CGCGCG)2. The influence of the 2'-O-methylation on the hydration pattern of RNA helical fragments is visualized at the atomic level.